The Show Notes

COSCO : "China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, known as COSCO or COSCO Group, is a Chinese shipping and logistics services supplier company. It is a government-owned company of the People's Republic of China. Its headquarters is in Ocean Plaza in the Xicheng District in Beijing. It owns more than 130 vessels (with a capacity of 600,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU)) and calls on over a thousand ports worldwide. It ranks sixth largest in number of container ships and ninth largest in aggregate container volume in the world." WSJ article about Skybox acquisition : "Amid Stratospheric Valuations, Google Unearths a Deal With Skybox - For a Mere $500 Million, Satellite Firm Promises to Boost Earnings and Rattle the World" Robert M. Parker Jr.  "(born July 23, 1947) is a leading U.S. wine critic with an international influence. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate, with his particular stylistic preferences and notetak

X-Men: Days of Future Past, Explained in Git A Facebook Update In Real Life Mac Pro "the CPU has a total of 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes"  (from AnandTech review) 12-core Xeon Max Turbo: 3.5 GHz instead of 3.9 GHz Childhood amnesia "also called infantile amnesia, is the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories before the age of 2–4 years, as well as the period before age 10 of which adults retain fewer memories than might otherwise be expected given the passage of time" Birth of new brain cells might erase babies’ memories  (information about the original paper ) Les dieux sont tombés sur la tête  ("The Gods Must Be Crazy") "est un film botswanais et sud-africain écrit et réalisé par le sud-africain Jamie Uys, sorti en 1980" Facebook uses 10,000 Blu-ray Discs to create petabytes of “cold storage” seems for backup only Multiple patterning  "is a class of technologies for manufacturing integrated circuits (ICs), developed for

BioLite CampStove : "The heat from the fire generates electricity via a thermoelectric generator to power a fan creating airflow for improved combustion. Surplus electricity is sent to the USB port for charging devices." ADHD Does Not Exist , article on New Republic: "Let me be clear: In my view, not a single individual—not even the person who finds it close to impossible to pay attention or sit still—is afflicted by the disorder called ADHD as we define it today." Alex's post:  Will native apps, Java, and JavaScript still be king, 5 years from now? Thing on stilts at Maker Faire, still don't know what it was: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/maker-faire-san-mateo?select=hknisGxux62jNrmhpbf8vg#zqxQPeAj3aLIaZpOf_1eQA http://apronthriftgirl.typepad.com/apron_thrift_girl/on_the_road/ Steampunk  "is a sub-genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery, especially in a setting inspired by industrialized Western civilization d

Oatmeal on Tesla What it's like to own a Tesla Model S Part Two , whereby Elon Musk is asked for $8 million Fruit of the Loom : underwear site Patxi's : Authentic Chicago “Stuffed” pizza, but also thin crust and pan pizza.

E-cigarettes An electronic cigarette "(e-cig or e-cigarette), personal vaporizer (PV) or electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) is a battery-powered device which simulates tobacco smoking by producing a vapor that resembles smoke. It generally uses a heating element known as an atomizer, that vaporizes a liquid solution. Some solutions contain a mixture of nicotine and flavorings, while others release a flavored vapor without nicotine." E-cigarettes: un écran de fumée? :  Emission A bon entendeur du 15 avril 2014 Nouveaux mots vapoter: je vapote, tu vapotes, etc. un vapoteur le vapotage Climbing Daredevil or reckless? 'Russia's Spiderman' Kirill Oreshkin takes extreme selfies from Moscow's tallest buildings Free climbing Free climbing  "is a specific rock climbing term that was created in contrast with aid climbing. It refers to climbs in which climbing protection such as ropes, tri-cams, nuts, and other aid-climbing equipment, may

FUs French PACS Introduced in 1999, originally as an alternative to marriage for same-sex couple, but as of 2012, 94% of PACS are between opposite-sex couples. In 2013, marriage and adoption rights were made legal for same-sex couples. Pissenlit "De pisse en lit, en raison des vertus diurétiques de cette plante" Sazerac "The defining feature of the Sazerac is the preparation using Peychaud's Bitters and two chilled old-fashioned glasses, one swirled with a light wash of absinthe for the slight taste and strong scent." ("Sazerac is also a brand of rye whiskey owned by the Sazerac Company and produced at the Buffalo Trace Distillery.") Citrus fruits, and their name in French La lime  ( lime in English) "They are grown year-round and are usually smaller and less sour than lemons." "Limes were first grown on a large scale in southern Iraq and Persia, and the fruit was first grown commercially in what is today souther

Yuja Wang plays Turkish March  (2011?) Sergei Rachmaninoff  "was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music." Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff) complete Martha Argerich version on YouTube jump to around 7:30 up to 9:00 for the part I was mentioning complete Yuja Wang version on YouTube San Francisco Transbay development OK "There is no consensus on the origins of "okay." Several possibilities exist."